Definition of Thenar. Meaning of Thenar. Synonyms of Thenar

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Definition of Thenar

Thenar
Thenal The"nal, Thenar The"nar, a. [NL., fr. Gr. ?.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.
Thenar
Thenar The"nar, n. (Anat.) (a) The palm of the hand. (b) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.

Meaning of Thenar from wikipedia

- The thenar eminence is the mound formed at the base of the thumb on the palm of the hand by the intrinsic group of muscles of the thumb. The skin overlying...
- muscles of the thumb can be divided into two groups; the thenar eminence and other muscles. The thenar eminence refers to the group of muscles on the palm...
- the distal part of the forearm. It supplies sensory innervation to the thenar eminence of the palm and the central palm. Articular branches are given...
- in the hand, which functions to oppose the thumb. It is one of the three thenar muscles. It lies deep to the abductor pollicis brevis and lateral to the...
- located just under the skin. It is a thenar muscle, and therefore contributes to the bulk of the palm's thenar eminence. It originates from the flexor...
- ulnar nerves from the brachial plexus. The intrinsic muscle groups are the thenar (thumb) and hypothenar (little finger) muscles; the interossei muscles (four...
- long flexor and a short flexor in the thenar muscle group. The human thumb also has other muscles in the thenar group (opponens and abductor brevis muscle)...
- nerve which supplies the thenar muscles. It is also occasionally referred to as the thenar branch of the median nerve, or the thenar muscular branch of the...
- Palmar erythema is reddening of the palms at the thenar and hypothenar eminences.: 139  It is ****ociated with various physiological as well as pathological...
- oblique. It is a fleshy, flat, triangular, and fan-shaped muscle deep in the thenar compartment beneath the long flexor tendons and the lumbrical muscles at...